Why are men not taken as seriously as men? version 2.0.

Proposed in my two page analysis was the question: why aren't women taken as seriously as men? This is a very difficult question to boil down to one particular time or place. Throughout history it seems like in most cultures women have always been the second priority to men. Men have had the best jobs and highest positions in society. I suspect that this has very, very ancient roots. In the dawn of man kind strength was an extremely important attribute. Men needed to hunt to gather food, they needed to protect themselves and their family, when the trend from hunting and gathering switched to farming men had to plow the fields. Strength was key to survival. Since men are physically stronger this made them more prominent and more, in a sense, respected.(135) There are tribes and various cultures where women and sometimes especially mothers are the most respected members of the community, but it is definately not especially prominent throughout history. You would have to assume that there should be more places like this. There should be more cultures of this sort. There are so many people out there. All these people divided into their own cultures with different beliefs, a higher percentage of these should recognize women as the dominant beings.Just the odds of the whole situation, there's millions upon millions of people at any given moment throughout history and for a large, and very non-proportional percentage of the time men just end up dominating the civilization. Things these days are evening out somewhat, but honestly would anyone think it would take this long for both genders to be treated equally. Not to mention were not even completely equal currently.